From the kelp forests of San Carlos Beach to the wrecks of San Diego and beyond, Dive N Trips connects the Tri-Valley community with some of the Pacific's most accessible and diverse diving.
Based in Pleasanton in California's Tri-Valley region, Dive N Trips organizes monthly group fun dives at San Carlos Beach — widely known as the Breakwater — inside Monterey Bay's National Marine Sanctuary. Divers can show up solo, find a buddy on-site, and get oriented through a pre-dive briefing; there are no formal memberships or pre-arranged buddy requirements, making these outings genuinely welcoming at all experience levels. The shop's Tri-Valley Dive Club serves as the social and logistical backbone for this community, meeting on the third Thursday of each month at The Hopyard Alehouse in Pleasanton. Beyond the Breakwater, the club ventures up and down the California coast — wreck diving off San Diego, exploring the Channel Islands, cruising the wild Sonoma and Mendocino coastlines, and reaching as far as the Pacific Northwest. Freshwater variety enters the mix via Lake Tahoe outings and an unusual trip to dive an abandoned Cold War missile silo, giving the operator's trip calendar a breadth rare among Bay Area dive shops. For divers wanting to go farther afield, Dive N Trips arranges fully organized group travel to exotic international destinations, with all logistics handled in advance so divers simply show up ready to dive. Back at the Pleasanton storefront, the operation supports divers with equipment sales and rental, an in-house fill station with quarterly air-quality testing, and manufacturer-compliant regulator servicing and repair.
Pleasanton, United States
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